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Register for this event – Disclosure of Sexual Abuse: encouragement, facilitation, and support

Irish Socail Worker

It is therefore vital for society and for individuals impacted by abuse that disclosure is encouraged, facilitated, and supported. Disclosure can help a person move towards healing, it can identify current and future children that may be at risk, and it can assist in bringing a perpetrator to justice.

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Professionals must face duty to report child sexual abuse, says inquiry

Community Care

Based on 15 separate investigations which held public hearings, and over 6,200 accounts of child sexual abuse shared with its Truth Project, the inquiry concluded: Child sexual abuse and exploitation takes many forms but can involve vile and painful acts such as vaginal and anal rape.

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NASW National Committee on Women’s Issues Denounces Attacks on Reproductive Rights

Social Work Blog

NASW joined an amicus brief on this case, which regards a law passed in Mississippi in 2018 banning any abortion operation after the first 15 weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormality, but not for cases of rape or incest. As social workers, we play a crucial role in protecting Roe.

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“Maybe we're just too damn intrusive": Tracing the take-the-child-and-run mentality that has endangered Massachusetts children for more than a century

NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

It traced the history and documented the racism that infused the work of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. But if the Massachusetts family police were honest they’d simply adopt the name used by poor people more than a century ago to describe the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Positive Autobiographical Memories in the Context of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Society of Clinical Psychology

Trauma exposure takes a toll on societies and individuals, leading to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for a sizable minority of individuals (Magruder et al., 2013), and financial costs to society (Kessler, 2000). Posttraumatic stress disorder: The burden to the individual and to society. link] Leiner, A.

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I once looked up to my uncle, the Jesuit priest and teacher – then I discovered the monstrous truth

The Guardian

My uncle Peter had always been a bit of a character, peculiar but not without charm. Then a chance encounter with one of his former pupils opened my eyes to his dark past On a summer evening in the first decade of the new millennium, I had arranged to meet a friend at a gastropub in London.

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‘I felt I had to’: SNP’s Karen Adam on revealing she was abused as child

The Guardian

MSP says she felt pressured to disclose her story after death threats she received over tweet about paedophiles A Holyrood politician who received death threats after she called for a more realistic debate about paedophiles has described how the experience prompted her to disclose her own abuse as a child.

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